Thursday, April 2, 2015

"Found in the Galloway area, of the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-west Scotland in September 2014, the assemblage is believed to be of ninth or tenth century Viking culture. The principal finds in the Viking treasure comprise of a decorative gold bird pin, a silver Carolingian pot, a solid gold ring, and a solid silver cross with gold inlay and enamel decorations, over twenty solid gold and silver ingots and dozens of solid silver arm bands decorated with saltire*-type designs."

Monday, February 2, 2015

"Some Pennsylvanians look forward with unusual intensity to Groundhog Day, but not for frivolity in Punxsutawney.Adherents of Urglaawe, a recently founded religion based in Bristol, regard the day as one of the most important in a calendar crowded with festivals that connect them with natural cycles through practices honored by time, if not by monotheistic creeds that replaced old ways."

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

"The chapters of Fibula, Fabula, Fact – The Viking Age in Finland are intended to provide essential foundations for approaching the important topic of the Viking Age in Finland. These chapters are oriented to provide introductions to the sources, methods and perspectives of diverse disciplines so that these resources and the history of discourse from which they emerge are accessible to specialists from other ﬁelds, specialists from outside Finland, and also to non-specialist readers and students who may be more generally interested in the topic. Rather than detailed case studies of speciﬁc aspects of the Viking Age in Finland, the contributors have sought to negotiate deﬁnitions of the Viking Age as a historical period in the cultural areas associated with modern-day Finland, and in areas associated with Finns, Karelians and other North Finnic linguistic-cultural groups more generally. Within the incredible diversity of data and disciplines represented here, attention tends to center on the identiﬁcation of the Viking Age through diﬀerentiating it from earlier and later periods, and on contextualizing it geographically in an era long before the construction of modern nations with their fenced and guarded borders. Most signiﬁcantly, the contributions lay emphasis on contextualizing the Viking Age within the complexities of deﬁning cultural identities in the past through traces of cultural, linguistic or genetic features."The full preface for this peer reviewed publication from the Finnish Literatue Society of Helsinki, edited by Joonas Ahola and Frog with Clive Tolley, may be read and also downloaded at Academia.edu.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Paper given 1 December 2012 at the 2nd meeting of the Old Norse Folklorist Network, University of Tartu. By Eldar Heide, eldar-heide.net/A PDF of the last proof of the paper is available at academia.edu.

"Groundhog Day is actually the first day of an observance that we know by a few names: Entschtanning, Uffdredde, or Uffdredding (all of which mean "emergence") in Urglaawe parlance. ... In this post, we will cover the more common food traditions. The full article by Robert L. Schreiwer, which includes a recipe for Seimaage (stuffed hog's maw), may be found at the Urglaawe blog.